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Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee |
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Committee Room 2 - Senedd |
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Meeting date: |
Wednesday, 11 June 2014 |
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Meeting time: |
09.00 – 12.00 |
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Assembly Members: |
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Christine Chapman AM (Chair) Leighton Andrews AM Peter Black AM Jocelyn Davies AM Janet Finch-Saunders AM Mike Hedges AM Mark Isherwood AM Gwyn R Price AM Jenny Rathbone AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM |
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Witnesses: |
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Carl Sargeant AM, Minister for Housing and Regeneration Alyn Williams, Welsh Government Helen Kellaway, Welsh Government Steve Munro, National Association of Caravan Owners Dan Ellacott, National Association of Caravan Owners Ros Pritchard, British Holiday & Home Parks Association Huw Pendleton, British Holiday and Home Parks Association Alicia Dunne, National Caravan Council Judith Archibold, National Caravan Council |
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Committee Staff: |
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Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk) Chloe Davies (Deputy Clerk) Helen Roberts (Legal Advisor) Ben Stokes (Researcher) |
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Transcript
View the meeting transcript.
1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members and members of the public to the meeting.
2 Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill: Stage 1 - Evidence Session 3
2.1 The Committee received evidence from Carl Sargeant, Minister for Housing and Regeneration and his officials.
3 Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill: Stage 1 - Evidence session 4
3.1 The Committee received evidence from the National Association of Caravan Owners.
3.2 During the session the National Association of Caravan Owners agreed to provide the following information to the Committee:
an analysis of written examples of the 1,200 complaints that were received in one year from caravan owners;
a note on its views on the proposal to introduce repayment orders, which would enable a holiday caravan occupier to apply to a magistrates’ court to recover certain payments made by an occupier to an unlicensed site owner;
a note on whether there is a need to introduce a fit and proper person test for managers of a holiday caravan site.
4 Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill: Stage 1- Evidence session 5
4.1 The Committee received evidence from the British Holiday and Home Parks Association and the National Caravan Council.
4.2 During the session, the British Holiday and Home Parks Association agreed to provide a note on the business rates paid by caravan parks to local authorities in Wales, which was included in their study with Visit Wales in 2011.
5 Papers to note
5.1 Members noted the correspondence from Sport Wales.
6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
6.1 The Committee agreed the motion.
7 Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill: Stage 1 - discussion of evidence sessions 3, 4 and 5
7.1 The Committee discussed the evidence from items 2, 3 and 4.